Photos for January 2012

Students serve dinner to 100+: Serving an evening meal recently at the Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley were Fitch High School Interact Club members: front row, left to right, Megan Miller, Alyssa Conn and Kirsty ...

Youngstown Municipal Court Administrator George Denney stands in the area of the police department’s fifth floor, where video arraignments will begin Monday. The city will spend $22,000 for a new videoarraignment system after the Mahoning ...

Ohio State’s Lenzelle Smith Jr., right, shoots over Michigan’s Blake McLimans during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday in Columbus. Smith scored 17 points and had a career-high 12 rebounds as ...

Lydia Cherep Becker, guidance counselor at Bristol High School, shows her mother, Mary Cherep, some of her students’ work at the Art Outreach Gallery in Eastwood Mall in Niles. Entries into the 2012 Northeastern Ohio ...

Jaclynn and Amanda Choma of Austintown Fitch High School have been chosen to represent Austintown at the Rotary Youth Leadership Award conference for three days in late February. They will meet with other juniors from ...

Austintown residents Ron and Robin Brooks won a new 2012 Ford Focus, which was presented to them in Pittsburgh on Jan. 17. Eat’n Park Restaurants and the Neighborhood Ford Store teamed up for the presentation, ...

ROBERT K. YOSAY | THE VINDICATOR: The Mahoning County Medical Society Alliance is hosting its eighth annual champagne brunch and fashion show February 23 to benefit the Midlothian Free Clinic and Second Harvest Backpack program. ...

The seventh annual “Celebration of Scouting” fundraiser breakfast will take place at 7:15 a.m. March 6 at the Holiday Inn in Boardman. The Whispering Pines District of the Greater Western Reserve Council of Boy Scouts ...

Trumbull County League of Women Voters recently had its annual Public Officials Luncheon at Cafe 422 in Warren. The event is by invitation and allows League members and various state and local officials an opportunity ...

J.T. Stenglein of the Youngstown Phantoms (17) knocks the Waterloo Black Hawks’ Eddie Wittchow (51) into the boards during a USHL game Thursday at the Covelli Centre. The game was tied 3-3 in the third ...

Youngstown State senior guard Kenya Middlebrooks (5) goes up for a shot during an Horizon League basketball game Thursday against Detroit at YSU’s Beeghly Center. The Penguins dropped the Titans, 80-67, behind Middlebrooks, who scored ...

Youngstown Police Department Patrolman Richard Baldwin is shown in a hallway at Chaney High School, where he works as a security officer two days a week. The Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars named Baldwin its ...

Jane Haggerty, math coach at P. Ross Berry Eighth and Ninth Grade Academy in Youngstown, uses an ordinary deck of playing cards to help students improve their math skills. The playing cards were on her ...

Aleishka Rodriguez, a fourth-grader at Youngstown’s Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, enrolled in the school as a second-grader speaking Spanish. Now, with help from her teacher, Joan Fahey, others at the school and family ...

Cleveland State guard D’Aundray Brown, an Ursuline High grad and preseason first team All-Horizon League selection, is averaging 11.6 points, 4.9 rebounds and a league-best 2.5 steals per game for CSU (17-4, 7-2), which will ...

Mahoning, Columbiana and Trumbull counties’ OSU Extension 4-H Exchange program is seeking families to host Japanese exchange students and chaperones this summer. Students and adults involved in last year’s exchange gather here for a picture.

Pallbearers including sons Jay Paterno, foreground right, and Scott Paterno, foreground center, carry the coffin of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno after funeral services at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State campus ...

Patriot Water Treatment LLC, the state’s lone brine-wastewater treatment plant in Warren, continues to stave off a potential closing by state environmental regulators. Joe Allen, above, is one of 25 employees at the facility, which ...

Michael Zordich, right, a former Cardinal Mooney standout, embraces fellow Penn State football player Kevin Blanchard as he replaces Blanchard as an honor guard in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State campus for ...

Debbie Protopapa ices a tray of cupcakes at her home in Struthers. Protopapa started Cupcake Crazy, a business that sells gourmet cupcakes. Cupcake Crazy off ers 50 gourmet flavors and four traditional ones. Protopapa also ...

Rosalind Wiseman, an author and speaker, talks to sixth- and seventh-graders at Woodrow Wilson Middle School on Monday about bullying. Wiseman wrote the book “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” which became the inspiration for the movie ...

A halo was added Monday above the likeness of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno on the mural outside a student bookstore in State College, Pa.. Paterno died Sunday after a brief battle with ...

Rosalind Wiseman, an author and speaker, talks to sixth- and seventh-graders at Woodrow Wilson Middle School on Monday about bullying. Wiseman wrote the book “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” which became the inspiration for the movie ...

Mahoning County Deputy Sheriff Stephanie Harchar stands guard as Artis Walton is video-arraigned from the county jail on a criminal-trespass charge. Brenda Rider, sitting next to Walton, is a Youngstown Municipal Court bailiff who took ...

Liberty Board of Education President Joe Nohra, right, reads a list of more than $1 million in cuts to district personnel as board Vice President David Malone looks on. The cuts will go into effect ...

Two employees work in the sleeving plant where labels are put on containers at Chobani Greek Yogurt in South Edmeston, N.Y. Greek yogurt accounts for a quarter of the total yogurt market after a dizzying ...

After failing to receive state tax credits twice and other setbacks, the owner of an agency to revitalize the long-vacant Kress Building in downtown Youngstown, above, has little hope the project will be realized.

Brandon Sullivan, 15, stands in the bedroom of his home at 157 Logan Ave. SE in Warren with his grandmother, Deborah Nicholl. Earlier this month, Brandon awoke and discovered a fire in the attic where ...

San Francisco 49ers' Chris Culliver (29) watches as New York Giants' Devin Thomas (15) recovers a fumbled punt by Kyle Williams during the overtime period of the NFC Championship on Sunday in San Francisco. The ...

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno acknowledges the crowd during warm-ups before a game in State College, Pa. Paterno, who in his 62 years with the Nittany Lions won more games than any other major ...

In this Nov. 19, 1983, file photo, Penn State coach, Joe Paterno, left, and Pittsburgh coach Foge Fazio talk before a college football game in Pittsburgh. Fazio, who succeeded Jackie Sherrill ascoach at alma mater ...

Penn State coach Joe Paterno is carried off the field by his players after getting his 400th collegiate win, defeating Northwestern 38-21 in an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa., Saturday, Nov.l 6, ...

In this Oct. 5, 2010 file photo, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno leaves Beaver Stadium after his weekly NCAA college football news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 in State College, Pa. Paterno, the ...

In this file photo from Nov. 5, 2005, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno acknowledges the crowd during warm-ups before the NCAA college football game against Wisconsin in State College, Pa. Paterno, the longtime Penn ...

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, poses in New York, Thursday, Nov. 30, 1978, with the Lambert trophy, honoring Penn State as the best major college team in the east Paterno insisted emphatically at the ...

A miniature football helmet lies among flowers left at the foot of a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 ...

Penn State fans pay thier respects at a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 in State College,Pa.. (AP Photo/Gene ...

Former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, seen in this 2006 file photo after the Nittany Lions defeated Florida State in the Orange Bowl, died Sunday, January 22, 2012. He was 85. (Clem Murray/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT)

Penn States? Joe Paterno, left, accepts the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award from former Georgia Tech coach Bobby Dodd at a lunch presentation, Wednesday, March 11, 1982 in Pittsburgh. The award recognizes a ...

Penn State coach Joe Paterno, right, stands on the sidelines during the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game against Youngstown State in State College, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Penn State won 44-14. ...

In this Sept. 6, 2008 file photo, Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, center, stands with players, from left, Jacob Fragnano, Chris Colasanti, Mark Wedderburn, and J.D. Mason as they watch the game for the ...

Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, right, quarterback Daryll Clark talk on the sideline during the first half of their college football game against Coastal Carolina Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 at Beaver Stadium in State ...

Committee members of the Men’s Garden Club of Youngstown are planning the annual Winter Seminar, which will take place Feb. 18 at Fellows Riverside Gardens. Members are, from left, Keith Kaiser, Bob Fink, Bill MacPherson, ...

Aurielle Irizzary (5) of Ursuline attempts to drive past Cardinal Mooney’s Taylor Woytek (34) during the second period of their basketball game Thursday at Cardinal Mooney High School. The Irish defeated the Cardinals, 38-28.

San Francisco 49ers owner John York of Canfield waves from the field at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The 49ers snapped a eight-season playoff drought after the Yorks’ hiring of Jim Harbaugh as head coach. ...

Campbell Officer Eric Manning makes a call on a cellphone at the police station. The city building, including police and fire departments, lost landline service Wednesday night and still was without it Thursday. Also affected ...

Gwendolyn E. Boyd was the keynote speaker Thursday at the 10th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Breakfast at Youngstown State University. A Montgomery, Ala., native, Boyd was one of five black students who ...

Minimum-wage increases have taken their toll on some small businesses in Ohio such as Belleria in Cornersburg. Owner Leanne Douglass said she had to close her full-service restaurant because of increasing labor costs.

Fables come to life: On Jan. 24, the Niles SCOPE Senior Center will host the production of “Aesop’s Fables” by Move Over Broadway Productions. The show is directed by Marlene Menaldi and features community theater ...

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh, left, chats with his brother, San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, center, and their father, Jack, before a game in Baltimore. The Harbaughs, separated in age by all of 15 ...

Assembly-line workers install dashboard air vents on a 2012 Ford Focus at the Ford Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Mich. U.S. factories roared to life in December, creating sharply more goods to meet strong demand ...

Ronald Catchpole of Howland, third from left, stands with the three men honored Wednesday by the Ohio State Highway Patrol for their actions Oct. 29, when Catchpole’s 1990 Pietenpol Aircamper crashed just after takeoff from ...

Juliet Machie, deputy director of the Detroit Public Library, and John S. Weedon, volunteer coordinator at a Connecticut food bank, both finalist candidates for the directorship of the Mahoning County public library system, share a ...

New officers of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys Chapter of Military Officers Association of America take their oath of office in the newly formed chapter headquarters. From left to right are retired Chief Warrant Officer ...

Sandy and Mark Mangan with their dog, Lou, stand outside their State Road home in Granger Township near Medina. Their home is one of two in Medina County that have been deemed a public-health threat ...

Workers from D&A Excavating of Canfield remove debris from the site of the former Ohio Leather Co. along North State Street in Girard. Although the demolition took place more than 10 years ago, the site ...

Auggie Ruggiero of Austintown checks out some websites during a computer class at the Austintown Senior Center. The class meets weekly and is taught by volunteers from the Austintown Local School District. Barb Kliner, district ...

Ballet company serves spaghetti: Ballet Western Reserve will have a spaghetti dinner fundraiser from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in the church hall at St. Patrick Church, 1420 Oak Hill Ave., Youngstown. Some of ...

Alicia Baty holds her daughter, Kimberly Grace Baty, 5 months, while Tammie Riddle of Youngstown asks her a question during the citywide baby shower. In addition to games and refreshments, the event featured information from ...

The cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side Monday after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last Friday. The rescue operation was called off midafternoon Monday after the Costa Concordia ...

Struthers’ Tommy Kimborough (12) is met by heavy pressure from Erie Strong Vincent’s Denzel Jones (11) during their basketball game Monday during the See Them Rise Classic at the Covelli Centre. The Wildcats came up ...

The cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side Monday after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last Friday. The rescue operation was called off midafternoon Monday after the Costa Concordia ...

Ursuline’s Kevin Jackson (30) has a shot blocked by Sharon’s Marlin Sanders (1) in the third period of their basketball game during the See Them Rise Classic on Monday at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown. ...

Learning about volunteers: Guest speaker for the Rotary Club of Austintown’s first meeting of the new year was Amy Miklandric, coordinator of volunteers at MVI Hospice Services. Part of the organization’s work is done by ...

Spelling Bee winners: Roosevelt Elementary School in McDonald had its 2012 Spelling Bee on Jan. 11 at McDonald High School. Principal Dave Vecchione, left, stands with students who finished in top spots. From left to ...

Canfield’s Kayla Barko (12) pressures Poland’s Aleah Hughes (10) as she tries to shoot the ball during the second period of their All-American Conference basketball game Thursday in Poland. The Cardinals defeated the Bulldogs, 56-46.

Graham DeLaet of Canada blasts out of a bunker on the 13th hole during the first round of the Sony Open golf tournament Thursday at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. DeLaet shot a 7-under-63 ...

Aramark service managers Randy Nelson, left, and Brittany Howard, center, talk to job-seekers Tuesday at the HireLive career fair in Los Angeles. More people sought unemployment benefits last week as companies let go of thousands ...

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society has raised about $4.5 million of the $6 million needed to complete the renovation of the former Harry Burt Building on West Federal Street in Youngstown. The building, now named ...

Gary Setz, highway maintenance supervisor with the Mahoning County engineer’s office, inspects the salt-truck fleet Thursday as it stands ready in the garage to keep county roads safe for motorists as the predicted snow flies ...

Demonstrators rally in downtown Youngstown in support of House Bill 108, also called “Nitro’s Law.” The rally Wednesday came at the same time Steven Croley of Austintown was in court for a probation-violation hearing.

Desiree D’Altorio, a fourth-grader at Taft Elementary School, Youngstown, rolls into the Relay for Learning at the school. Students, divided into teams, race to the front of the gymnasium, answer a question and race back.

Girard Junior Women raise funds: Girard Junior Women member Kendra Allen, left, paints the face of Colette Chuey, also a member, at a recent fundraiser. The group will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at Amen ...

State-certifi ed English-Spanish interpreter John P. Shaklee, left, interprets for Victor Manuel Galindo-Barjas, a native Spanishspeaker from Mexico, during a court hearing in which Barjas pleaded guilty to drunken driving and two counts of aggravated ...

Alabama’s Trent Richardson holds up the winning trophy after the BCS National Championship game against LSU on Monday in New Orleans. Alabama won 21-0. Commissioners, who met Tuesday, are considering big changes to the BSC, ...

Specialist Christopher Gildea works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. U.S. stocks traded solidly higher Tuesday after European markets rallied and corporate bellwether Alcoa predicted stronger demand in 2012.

Memorabilia and other items from the Boardman A&W restaurant, such as these root beer mugs, will be auctioned today by Basinger Auctions. The Boardman restaurant closed Dec. 31, after nearly 40 years in business.

Neil Heller, an assistant chief of the Warren Fire Department, holds the bullet that he found on the street outside a house on Fourth Street Southwest on Tuesday morning. He found the bullet just after ...

State Rep. Robert Hagan of Youngstown, D-60th, was at Tuesday’s protest at the Ohio Statehouse, where he urged his fellow lawmakers to institute a moratorium on horizontal hydraulic fracturing and on the disposal of drilling ...

Barbara Clelind, 76, a three-year resident of Hubbard Manor apartments, enjoys the newly renovated apartment in which she lives. The 40-year-old complex is undergoing a $5.7 million renovation expected to be complete by the end ...

New York Giants wide receiver Mario Manningham, a graduate of Harding High School, pulls in a 27-yard touchdown pass against Atlanta Falcons strong safety James Sanders (36) and Dunta Robinson during the second half of ...

Chloe Baer, 2, and her father Matt Baer, of Poland, log Chloe’s healthy eating habits using her An Apple A Day tracking tool. Baer said the program, which he also uses with his 7-year-old daughter, ...

Easter Seals is beneficiary: MTC Easter Seals and Youngstown Hearing & Speech Center was recently presented with a check from the Youngstown-Columbiana Association of Realtors in the amount of $7,300. Ken Sklenar, right, president and ...

Pictures are claim to frame: Diane Chappell Foreman, of Chappell’s House of Pictures & Frames in Salem, took second place in the print competition of the Ohio Professional Picture Framer’s Association. Her work qualified for ...

Rose Windt, seated, is with members of her family who gathered to celebrate her 100th birthday Jan. 4. From left to right are Gina McQuillan, a granddaughter; Melia Caban, a great-great-granddaughter; Jacquelyn Caban, a great-granddaughter; ...

The 2011 Chevrolet Volt debuts at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles. General Motors will strengthen the structure around the batteries in its Volt electric cars to keep them safe during crashes, a ...

A pair of bulls is displayed in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday to promote the Professional Bull Riders annual event at Madison Square Garden. Stocks steadily gained ground Thursday after falling ...

A woman walks down 34th Street carrying the fruits of her shopping expedition on the day after Christmas in New York. A flurry of post-Christmas bargain-shopping helped drive sales higher in the last week of ...

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Richard Cordray in Shaker Heights, Ohio. In a defiant display of executive power, Obama on Wednesday bucked GOP opposition and appointed Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog.

Susie Beiersdorfer, a part-time geology instructor at Youngstown State University and a member of Occupy Youngstown, spoke at Wednesday’s city council meeting about injection wells and earthquakes. Council President Jamael Tito Brown, left, listens.

American Association of University Women, Warren-Trumbull County Branch, were treated recently to an evening of holiday entertainment. Members of Lakeview Madrigal Singers, above, under the direction of Bonnie Chronister, performed several selections. The next meeting ...

Actress and author Carol Weakland, left, and Tony Cebriak discuss her recent presentation of “The Cricket on the Hearth,” a lesser-known Christmas tale by Charles Dickens, to the Austintown Friends of the Library. The next ...

The Boardman Spartans Marching Band traveled to Disney Theme Parks from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1. Under the direction of Thomas Ruggieri, director of bands, and Michael Shevok, assistant director, the band participated in “Mickey’s ...

Penn State running back and Mooney graduate Michael Zordich (9) moves in to assist teammate Chaz Powell (2) as Powell is pursued by Houston running back Braxton Welford (40) during the second half of the ...

Florida’s Ronald Powell (7) sacks Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller (5) in the first half of the Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl at Everbank Field on Monday in Jacksonville, Fla. The Gators’ defense and special teams came ...

Fitch’s Maura Bianco (24) and and Cassie Custer, right, try to shut down Harding’s Audreyanna Baldridge (23) during the first half of a basketball game Monday at Austintown Fitch High School. The Raiders dominated the ...

Patrons enjoy drinks and wings at the bar inside the new Quaker Steak and Lube in Boardman. The establishment, which moved from Market Street to its new site last August, was one of eight locations ...